Windlass water-elevator bucket



(No Model.)

0,, W. SCHMUESER. WINDLASfiWATER ELEVATOR BUCKET.

N0. 314,061. Patented M 17, 1885.

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NiTED STATES CHARLES W. SOHMUESER,

PATENT FFICE.

OF WILLS CREEK, OHIO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,061, dated March 17, 1885.

' Application filed October 29,1884. (No model.)

I To (LZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. SoHMUEsER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of \Vills Creek, in the county of Coshocton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Carrying IVater from \Vells and Springs; and I do hereby declare that the following is .a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figure lis a side view of a device for carrying water from wells or springs, provided with my improved bucket and bail. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on line mm, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective detail view of .the bucket with its weighted yoke; and Fig. 4 is aview showing the bucket being automatically emptied.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts in all the, figures.

My invention has relation to buckets for water-elevators for wells and springs; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of such a bucket, having a weighted yoke which will facilitate the filling of the bucket, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the bucket is shown used in a so-called "Windlass-elevator," having the elevatorrope passing over pulleys upon a carriage which travels upon an inclined track, and although I prefer this construction I do not confine the use of the bucket to this construction of an elevator.

In the drawings, A indicates the inclined track; B, the carriage; O, the bucket; D, a

pulley upon the bail of the bucket, and E the hoisting-rope, which is secured at one end to the carriage whereupon it passes over the pnl' ley D and over a pulley in the carriage to a suitable Windlass or other hoisting apparatus.

F is the well, having posts G and grooved ways H, in which the outwardly-projecting ends J of a yoke, K, slide. The endsJ of this and the bail L, to the upper end of which the ends'to the ends of this yoke, while a cross piece, M, having a weight, N, pending from it, is secured with its ends between the sides of the yoke, which has the shape of an oblong loop.

0 is a chute into which the bucket is emptied, having a cut-01f front edge, I, and a pro- K and hold it while the bucket is tilted and emptied.

lowered will strike the water the weighted yoke will tilt the bucket and force its rim the bucket may again be drawn up and emptied.

ing mechanism; but

I claim- The combination of the bucket, the bail,

through the ears of thebueket, and the weight suspended from and between the arms of the yoke, keeping the latter in a horizontal posision, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereunto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES IV. SCHMUESER.

\Vitnesses:

THEO. G. SOHMUESER, IIARRISS HART.

yoke K pass through the ears I of the bucket, i. i

pulley D is secured, is secured with its lower under the water, allowing it to be filled, when.

jecting horn, Q, adapted to engage the yoke It will be seen that as the bucket on being I make no claims for the hoisting or emptythe oblong yoke having its ends projecting 

